Students Walk Out on Prof Who Teaches ‘Hate Speech, Blasphemy, and Pornography’ for Using the N-Word

The following excerpt is from an article that originally appeared on The Economic Crisis Report

Patrick Nouhailler’sYou’d think that students who sign up for a class on “Cultural Freedoms: Hate Speech, Blasphemy, and Pornography” might have understood what they were getting themselves into.

But no, several students in Lawrence Rosen’s Princeton anthropology class walked out last week, and made formal complaints, after Rosen provided examples of supposedly offensive speech. Among other things, the instructor asked which was worse: a white man punching a black man in the face, or a white man using the N-word. Rosen, who is Jewish, used the actual slur several times.